Other possibilities based on my personal experience with these things: 1) Their counsel told them to STFU and quit bragging about things for which they yet have no patent protection.
and 2) They encountered challenges of scale when they tried to create a commercial application. Or, as one of my engineers puts it, "I don't understand, it worked in the Powerpoint presentation." Terry On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM, OrionWorks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A follow-up on my recent STEORN musings. > > There is another possibility that comes to mine, a remote scenario > that involves a bit of drama. It assumes STEORN still has something of > value that they eventually plan on revealing. However, based on the > fact that there have been no official announcements since October > 2007, it is admittedly a stretch, even a leap of faith for me to > assume that the Dublin based company may still be in the running. > > Assuming for the sake of argument that it has taken STEORN's engineers > this long to fix the embarrassing ORBO problem. If so, I could see how > in order to generate maximum effect the marketing portions of the > company might be planning on presenting their comeback on the 1st year > anniversary of the original Kinetica failed demonstration. Again, it's > a stretch, but I will be noting the date on my calendar. > > Meanwhile, a more realistic and prosaic conclusion to reach under the > circumstances is that STEORN's engineers may have discovered much to > their dismay that the ORBO PM configuration is not as robust as their > original tests indicated. If so I would well imagine there's a lot of > internal hand wringing and what-to-dos being bandied about. > > Back on April 17, 2008, OrionWorks sed: > > > > > Speaking of alternative energy companies... > > > > It's been a long dry spell since we've heard anything from STEORN, > > particularly since their spectacularly failed July 2007 demo debacle. > > My gut reaction would be to assume, sadly, that things are probably > > not being going well for them. Common sense would suggest to me that > > STEORN's engineers would have been able to by now correct the kinks so > > embarrassingly revealed in the failed demo. Surely they would have by > > now presented a sequel: The new-and-improved ORBO. > > > > Still waiting. > > > > In absence of hard data, speculation runs rampant. One of my favorite > > STEORN conspiracies can be found out on Wikipedia where: > > > > * * * * * * > > > > > Eric Berger, writing on the Houston Chronicle website, > > > commented that: > > > > > " Recall that Steorn is a former e-business company that > > > saw its market vanish during the dot.com bust. It stands > > > to reason that Steorn has re-tooled as a Web marketing > > > company, and is using the "free energy" promotion as a > > > platform to show future clients how it can leverage > > > print advertising and a slick Web site to promote their > > > products and ideas. If so, it's a pretty brilliant > > > strategy.[33] > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn > > > > * * * * * * > > > > Taking my own advice to heart, where it is advisable to choose the > > conspiracy one wishes to believe in wisely, I have to admit that I > > actually gave Mr. Berger's theory serious consideration. In the end, > > however, I discarded it on the premise that Berger's theory violated > > my personal understanding of the principals of Occam's Razor. The > > theory personally strikes me as possessing too many complicated > > assumptions that would have to be set in place for the final payoff to > > eventually be realized. ...and just when is that "payoff" supposed to > > occur? > > > > Of course, this leave me once again clueless as to what might really > > be going on. I've therefore decided appeal to the collective > > intelligence of Vort's membership, particularly to all those > > entrepreneurs and former CEOs who have suffered their own personal > > stories - the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune while running > > their own companies and start-ups. What say you all to the STEORN > > saga? What do your own gut reactions suggest? > > > > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
